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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Beauty and Design.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of truth is one that is known before any experience?
(a) A posteriori.
(b) A priori.
(c) Synthetic.
(d) Analytic.

2. Who began the problem of objective knowledge?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Hume.

3. What did Kant study throughout his early academic career?
(a) Geography.
(b) A variety of disciplines.
(c) Math.
(d) Philosophy.

4. What did Descartes argue was the first and most certain piece of knowledge?
(a) One has an identity.
(b) One is an intelligent self.
(c) One is a human being.
(d) One is a thinking self.

5. According to Scruton, Kant was the first philosopher since whom to place a significant emphasis on aesthetics?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Plato.
(d) Hume.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was David Hume from?

2. Which of the following did Hume deny?

3. What are antinomies the logical fallacies of?

4. When beginning an argument, what did Kant appeal to?

5. According to Kant, what does it mean to act in accordance with one's desires?

(see the answer key)

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